My Verdict on the Election

Thank goodness this interminable election campaign is over!  How on earth all political parties have managed to conduct their campaigns without confronting the major issues beggars belief.  How can defence of the realm be ignored in the current geopolitical climate?  How can it be right to advocate more borrowing and load our unjustified profligacy on our children? How can anyone believe that the NHS, confronted with ever more expensive treatments, insatiable public expectation and inexorable longevity, can possibly be funded by fag packet calculation?  How can we maintain our competitiveness in the world's market place and become more productive.  Why is it that businesses need to recruit from abroad because they cannot find the skills they need at home? What is wrong with our culture and pride in our Nation that denigrates past achievement and dumbs-down or ignores anything remotely difficult to comprehend?

The only certainty tomorrow will be the triumphant entry of 650 arm-waving nonentities into the new House of Commons (there are a few with principles, who I would except, but very few).  Now, if the BBC gets its wish, we can look forward to a period of legislative impotence allowing the institutions and vested interests to carry on business as usual.  If we are lucky, the real issues of this election, mentioned above, will simply lie festering in the slender hope that, once the hubris subsides, politics will "get real."  If we are unlucky, and "events" occur, then ever serve us right!